Sadie King

Infobox Emmerdale character 2


name=Sadie King
portrayer=Patsy Kensit
years=2004-2006
born= February 4, 1970
death=| home=
occupation=| family=| spouse = Jimmy King (?-2005)
Alasdair Sinclair (2006)
first=May 10, 2004
last=September 2006

Sadie Jacqueline King (née Campbell, previously Sinclair), was a fictional character on the ITV soap opera "Emmerdale". She was played by Patsy Kensit.

About Sadie

From the moment she stepped off the helicopter all fur coat, bling shades and dazzling diamonds, it was clear that Sadie King meant business.

The bitchy blonde, who married wealthy Tom King’s eldest son Jimmy, took an instant disliking to her father-in-law’s fiancée Charity Tate and made her feelings very clear. She was best friends with brother-in-law Carl's wife Colleen and wasn't happy when he began dating middle-class Chas Dingle.

While her hatred of Charity was instantaneous and intense, Sadie was also starting to rapidly go off her own husband. Jimmy was a simple man who wanted lots of children and his pretty wife by his side. But Sadie had other ideas and kept having contraceptive injections behind his back. When he forced the issue, Sadie had to come clean and her deception threw their marriage into jeopardy, with a devastated Jimmy furiously demanding a divorce.

Sick of being rejected by Jimmy, Sadie began sleeping with local teenage mechanic Robert Sugden – who couldn’t believe his luck.

Her love life might have been complicated, but Sadie’s big interest was in money. Knowing that Jimmy’s rejection meant her position in the King family was threatened, Sadie began to hatch a plan to ensure Charity Tate never became Tom’s wife. Employing a private detective to trail Charity, Sadie bribed her ex-lover Cain Dingle to get Charity in a compromising position. With Tom already unable to contain his jealousy over Charity, Sadie put in the final dose of poison by giving him the incriminating photos on his wedding day.

She’d successfully sabotaged the wedding, but Sadie’s actions were going to cost her far more dearly.

Charity decided to wage war against her nemesis by sleeping with Jimmy behind his wife’s back and videotaping the whole event! In the film, Jimmy revealed everything about Sadie’s evil plots, her alliance with Cain and the state of their marriage. A triumphant Charity burst into Jimmy's birthday party shortly afterwards and announced to everyone present that she'd been having an affair with him, much to the fury of Sadie and the King family, and Charity then publicly played the videotape after she had been initially accused of just trying to cause trouble between Sadie and Jimmy and the decaying remains of their marriage.

The repercussions saw Tom disown both Jimmy and Sadie, their marriage was ended and Sadie found herself alone again. But she had no intention of losing everything. While she knew her marriage to husband Jimmy couldn’t be saved, Sadie decided to launch a bid to get back into the family business.

Enlisting Cain Dingle’s help again, Sadie purchased some land the Kings desperately needed for their development and blackmailed her way back into the company. She may have got what she wanted in terms of money, but she’s wasn’t welcomed back into the fold by Tom.

Lonely, isolated and desperate she slept with Cain Dingle – much to his delight. But when she rejected his advances afterwards, Cain took a terrible revenge by killing her beloved dog Damon. However, while Sadie was devastated by Damon’s murder, she had no intention of resting on her laurels.

When her ex brother-in-law Max King died tragically, she used the fact Tom was vulnerable and grieving to her advantage and was soon back in the fold after blackmailing Zoe Tate into handing over Home Farm to Tom. He was so grateful that Tom even ended up making a move on her.

But, although it would have been the answer to all her problems, Sadie couldn’t bring herself to get it on with Tom, unsurprisingly.

It transpired that Matthew had been in love with Sadie for years and they were even sleeping together before she married Jimmy. Now they were both free, the couple started sleeping together again and Matthew, for the first time, let his guard down.

Things were looking perfect for the pair as Tom prepared to step down as head of the company and hand it over to Matthew. But just before he signed on the dotted line, Jimmy exposed the couple’s affair and Tom went mad.

He gave Matthew a choice – be with Sadie or take over the company. Matthew chose the business, leaving Sadie devastated. She retreated to lick her wounds, but Sadie was back with a vengaence just a few weeks later.

Having snared herself a rich fiancé in the form of dimwitted Alasdair Sinclair, she was a marriage ceremony away from being filthy rich again. But there were two problems standing in her way, Alasdair’s suspicious mother Rosemary and ex-lover Matthew.

Even though Sadie managed to get him down the aisle, it was to be the briefest marriage ever. Stopping her outside the church, Matthew confessed his undying love for Sadie and gave up King & Sons. Tom threw him out of the family and the couple were on their own.

But Sadie had no intention of being left with nothing and was soon coming up with ways to get Matthew back in business. Upon hearing that haulage rival Don Clough was selling his business, Sadie encouraged Matthew to buy it and dupe his brother’s into believing false information that would throw their own bid into jeopardy. It worked, but it ensured that Matthew completely burned his bridges with his brothers – with Carl disowning him too. Sadie was hell bent on ensuring that her man and her business do brilliantly – at the expense of anyone who gets in their way.

After Matthew discovered that Sadie was involved in the Show Home Collapse (she paid Cain Dingle to vandalise it) which left his brother seriously injured, he ended their relationship and was welcomed back into the family. After her break up Sadie became hell bent on getting even with the King family.

Along with Cain, they devised a plan to kidnap Tom King. In the end, Cain left with £2,000,000 and Sadie with nothing except a sport car bmw.

The last we heard of Sadie was she had sent flower's to Tom King's funeral but they were binned by Matthew.

ee also

*Emmerdale Cast List
*Carnlough